DocumentCode :
36099
Title :
From the Editor´s Desk
Author :
Heide, Lars
Author_Institution :
Copenhagen Business School
Volume :
35
Issue :
3
fYear :
2013
fDate :
July-Sept. 2013
Firstpage :
2
Lastpage :
3
Abstract :
This issue features several articles that discuss different perspectives on innovating computer technology. Specifically, the issue includes features on the emergence of computer engineering in the United States from the mid-1940s to the mid-1950s; the history of a large Swedish producer of mechanical calculators, Facit; a history of Chaim Selig Slonimski and his adding device inventions in the late 1800s; and the development of the programming language CPL in the early 1960s. It also include an article that applies a methodological approach to the historiography of computing and suggests using the concept of "information hiding" to distinguish the kinds of information that get hidden when human beings interact with different types of computing machines.
Keywords :
CPL; Chaim Selig Slonimski; Facit; IEEE; adding devices; computer innovation; history of computer engineering; history of computing; information hiding; mechanical calculators;
fLanguage :
English
Journal_Title :
Annals of the History of Computing, IEEE
Publisher :
ieee
ISSN :
1058-6180
Type :
jour
DOI :
10.1109/MAHC.2013.37
Filename :
6617643
Link To Document :
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